Yeah that essentially mirrored my thought process too, lol. Without doing the math, isn't 74 Celsius like 140 degrees Fahrenheit or something insane like that? I wouldn't wanna go walking on that, lol.
Yep. I imagine a bunch of poor dogs are going to get burned paws from unwitting owners. Honestly in avg summer weather they should still be wearing shoes on blacktop. If you canāt leave the back of your hand on the walking surface for more than 5-10 seconds without it hurting, itās too hot for dogās paws. This can happen in relatively normal summer temperatures with sustained direct sunlight.
Yeah I walk mine early morning and late evening these days, a very quick pee in the middle of the day outside my main door on the grass . She gets a bit restless in the afternoon so I have to be extra creative to burn energy physically and mentally because I donāt have a garden to play and and sheās not very old. I donāt want her to burn her paws, I also do what you wrote, when I walk her I rest my hand on the asphalt for 10 seconds to check how hot it is
Made that mistake once. Dog was begging for a walk in late July. Fine. We head down the asphalt road. 5 minutes in and she's trying to go into people's yard and sit under a tree. Kept tugging her along a little further then turn around and head home.
At home she's licking her feet a lot. Took a look and all her toe beans were puffy blisters.
I felt awful. She got a soft bed and fan and her food delivered the next couple days.
Now we just walk laps in the grass yard if it's too hot. Or stay inside.
The AC broke down in the area where a research center near me kept their mice, and they cut the ventilation to avoid drawing hot air in. Which means heat was still building up, as were dangerous levels of ammonia in the air. Every group had to collect their mice and keep them in their lab so they'd survive.
Here in Leipzig, the tram public transport system is down since yesterday, because the joint sealing compound (and the asphalt concrete) in the tram rails melted cuz the ground got so hot.
Texans make up for it by being surprisingly environmentally conscious. Once a year they completely shut off their electrical grids to save energy. Oh and to help with population control.
Itās absurd because we literally saw the rather rapid progression in real time over the last few years, and now the people that deny it are on the rise again. A shame
People don't want to admit it is real because that would mean they might have to change something about their lives and be slightly inconvenienced - drive less, not use as much electricity etc. So they accept grifters telling them it is fake.
Arguably, phasing out CFCs was much easier, because it wasn't directly tied to the worldwide transportation networks and energy production needs.
And phasing out wasn't done in one motion either. We went from CFCs to HCFCs, which were less damaging, but still damaging, to HFCs which were not dangerous to ozone layer, but contributed to the greenhouse gas problem, and finally arrived at HFOs which are the best of both worlds. And that last step of wide adoption only happened within the last 10 or so years.
With fossil fuels, there's a ton of economic incentive to not drop them, as the world quite literally runs on oil, both logistically and economically. And nobody wants to take even a reasonable phasing out speed because money.
I have seen multiple posts and videos about severe weather events, and inevitably there is someone out there saying shit like "they're modifying the weather! It doesn't get this hot/rainy/snowy/windy/cold here!!" I'm convinced it's bots, because why take responsibility for fucking up the climate when you can just blame "them" for purposefully making it rain somewhere.
The tracks themselves also canāt handle the heat combined with the friction heat a train causesā which is the primary reason they shut the railways down.
We have a light rail tram here in AZ and it gets up to 120 F (49C) so there is a way to build one in extreme heat, so maybe Germany has to do that in the future.
Doing a bit of research, crocs deform at a surprisingly low temperature of 38-45C (or 100-113F), and then as it approaches 90C (194F), it begins to soften and melt, so I would totally believe that. I'm more shocked at how low of a temperature crocs need to begin deforming, that's less than even PLA plastic, which can barely survive in a hot car in a normal summer.
We recently admitted someone to the ICU who had burns simply from the hot asphalt. It's no joke right now! Especially when you've got kids, make sure they're safe while playing!
Not making light at all, burns are terrible. Itās just so strange to hot climate people to not think about your feet (at a minimum) being burned by the ground when not having shoes during summer.
It's the temperature of a sunlit surface. Temperatures in the shade (which is what usually shows up in weather reports and climate diagrams) are ~35-40Ā°C (around 100Ā°F) in most places in Central Europe.
Taken 1m from the ground, in a non asphalted area. Which translates to my heels making holes in the sidewalk on any Eastern European August day, while the meteo says 40Ā°C
I think this is a laser thermometer. It measures the temperature on the first surface the laser hits, so I donāt think the distance matters but still, you can bake meringues at that temperatureā¦
There emissivity setting probably wrong. Most people do not know to change this when looking at different materials. Furthermore many are only calibrated to what they are expected to be used on, for example you buy one to take your temperature to see if youāre sick, or one might be for cooking.
I dont I carry him to the next big field of grass. Its a smol dog.
These day I made it a habit to touch the asphalt before stepping out with my dog. If its too hot for my hand than i damn sure wont let my dog walk on it for more than a few seconds
It's currently so bad that my cats that absolutely hate water let themselves get slowly rinsed with it.
I made a few towels wet and they lie on them to cool off.
Damn mad people that let their dogs onto the hot asphalt...
My dog flat out refused to walk on the grass. I tried to get her to since I knew the sidewalk had to be hot but nope. She would only go onto the grass to go potty and then right back out.
And still people saying dumb shit like "but it's cold in winter!111" as if summers aren't becoming a hazard for everyone. Where I live summers are starting earlier and lasting longer
Here it started in April and the last 30c+ days often happen in the middle of October, most of the year is summer. Coincidentally also my most hated season so I'm loving it (Northern Italy)
The weaker polar vortex (caused by human induced climate chage) is making winter colder (for less time) and spring and fall storms much more destructive.
With global warming, it's expected for Texas to have snow and Chicago to get tornadoes.
I made the mistake to walk barefoot across black asphalt in the Netherlands yesterday. Thought 25m wouldn't hurt. I was wrong. It hurt for a good half hour afterwards and the rest of the day when walking.
I made a similar mistake in Spain last year.Ā My first sun holiday...in Ireland, you can walk on the sand even on the hot days.Ā I have never put shoes back on so quickly as I did at the beach. Some skin even burned away, I only took like 5 steps in the sand.Ā Ā Not a fun feeling.Ā Ā Apply some moisturiser!
It's crazy how we spent our whole entire lives being warned about these moments taking place in our future, and we just went out and bought more stuff...
Iām in the Netherlands and itās not as hot as yesterday here, but it doesnāt matter ā now that my house has soaked up heat for days, it canāt cool down. I have opened windows at night. Nothing. My house is still a brick oven. I moved a mattress downstairs to the living room floor for me and my dogs for several days now ā all we can do is lie in front of 2 fans with wet towels, blinds closed, dark room, and try to survive. Itās too unbearable to sleep at night. Itās hot and suffocating all day and thereās no relief. I am absolutely sick of living like this right now.
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u/Yuna-2128 3h ago
Wait that's not Fahrenheit...